Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: https://ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visuals/indicators.html
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Show threadProf. Stefan RahmstorfNov 13

Scientific sources to check yourself:

Holocene: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03984-4

Extremes: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-021-00202-w

Sea level: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01761-5

Tipping points: https://global-tipping-points.org/

Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum - Nature

Paleoclimate datasets are integrated with a climate model to reconstruct global surface temperature since the Last Glacial Maximum, showing sustained warming until the mid-Holocene.

Nature
Show threadMario Hauff Nov 13

@rahmstorf Never give up to fight for the least centigrade.

If you are overwhelmed - you are not alone. See the Psychologists/Psychotherapists for Future @psy4f

Just imagine this: You go out on a sailing trip in quite warm ocean. You get shipwrecked by a storm, very few miles away from the coast. You have a rough idea where the coast is. The water is warm enough to survive for a couple hours.

What would you do? Use your chance to survive, even a small one? Or sink into immediate death?

Show threadeconadsNov 13

@rahmstorf not at all a helpful comment here, but your extremely cheerful profile pic is very inappropriate for this dire.. I would call it news but it's really not at this point... observation.

Just tickled me, don't mind me.

Show threadGrüner OV Raum StockachNov 13

@rahmstorf

Just 1 Question:
If AMOC would end in 2050 we could get much lower temperature in western Europe.
Will it compensate the rising temperatur due to GHG emmission?

Show threadGrassroots JoeNov 14

@stockach

I'm pretty sure the AMOC impacts the distribution of atmospheric heat across continental areas, not the total heat among all of them.
The GHG blanket captures ever more heat, increasing the energy in the oscillating system that is the global climate and all of the weather systems in the world.
Like any driven oscillating system, as you put more energy into it the oscillations get bigger. Higher highs, lower lows & bigger gradients across which dangerous storms develop.

@rahmstorf

Show threadGrassroots JoeNov 14

@stockach

PS Physics major here with general understanding of how this all works, no special expertise in climate science.

@rahmstorf

Show threadIcanbobNov 13
@rahmstorf I’m becoming more convinced that the reason we continually fail to address this issue is related to the economic myths we collectively believe are gospel. Maybe if we instead believed the Stephanie Kelton’s and Steve Keen’s of the world our path would be different.
Show threadPG19582🇺🇸🇹🇩🇺🇦🇵🇸Nov 13
@rahmstorf incredible that small brained dinosaurs managed to evolve and thrive for 100 million years while homosapiens have ensured their own destruction in less than 300K.
Show threadHolgerNov 13
@rahmstorf so many different indicators showing extraordinary effects almost parallel...you know Occam's Razor?....must be more likely a systemic error in the method. A common cause would likely be a conspiracy theory </sarcasm>...oops, forgot the start tag
Show threadfnord99Nov 13
@rahmstorf exciting to see what will happen in the next 30 years!
Show threadGondorNov 14
@rahmstorf
And the german government is like:
Lets push this a little bit shall we.
Planning new Gaspower plants, make Flying cheaper, keep trainservice worsening, public transport who the hell needs that, keep fighting the end of ICE....
😡
Show threadSérgio MachadoNov 14
@rahmstorf We are on good path to auto destruction...
Show threadmatclabNov 14
@rahmstorf
Please add à description to the image so we can boost.
@rgacogne